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Course Syllabus
Course Information
Course Number/Section HIST 4344.002
Course Title The Holocaust
Course Description
Overshadowing the achievements of the Enlightenment, the mass murder of European Jewry has been recognized as one
of the watershed events of the twentieth-century. Eliminating millions of people by shooting, gassing, and starvation, the Third
Reich has created a new world, the like of which has not been experienced before. Its decision upon the death sentence for every
Jew, and the ways in which the Nazis implemented this sentence, has affected our basic concepts of progress, enlightenment,
morality, and freedom.
The purpose of this course is to explore the background as well as the social, political, historical, and cultural contexts of
this event. Constructing our inquiry around two major questions: why did this mass murder happen, and how did it run its course,
we will examine the development of the ancient religious background of anti-Semitism and study the emergence of nationalism
and scientific racism in nineteenth-century Europe. In addition, we will consider the rise of the modern German state, the First
World War, the Depression, Hitler’s creation of the Third Reich, the anti-Jewish laws, the persecution of the Jews, the
implementation of the Holocaust in every country occupied by the Reich, and the moral implications of the mass murder of
European Jewry. Also, we will study the ways in which the Holocaust has continued to affect our religious beliefs, our sense of
morality, and our notions of education and culture.
Students will analyze the long-standing tradition of anti-Semitism as well as the background and history of the Holocaust. Also,
they will consider several major, scholarly interpretations of this catastrophic event, study, and critically evaluate some of the most
dramatic and beautiful texts of our time engendered by the Shoah.
*Required reading assignments from Ilan Avisar, Joel Carmichael, André Colombat, David Crowe, Lucy Dawidowicz, Ida Fink,
Jeffrey Herf, Chaim Kaplan, Wendy Lower, Michael Marrus and Robert Paxton, George Mosse, Leon Poliakov, Emmanuel
Ringleblum, Leni Yahil, and others can be found on electronic reserve in the UT Dallas library.
(Please check that the publisher and the ISBN number of the book you plan to purchase match the number given on this
syllabus.)
Required Materials
Texts listed above under “Required Texts” in addition to works which are noted below with *.
Readings which are noted with * will be located on the electronic reserve site of the Mc Dermott Library. The site is located at:
http://library.utdallas.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First. Once on this site, choose the tab labeled “Course
Reserve.” After you have reached the Course Reserve site, choose Debbie Pfister’s name from the first pull down menu, and then
your course in the second window. Then click “Find IT.” A new window will open. Click on the statement “Electronic Reserves
for HIST 4344.002, Pfister.” When you reach the new page you will be asked for a password which will be provided in class and
must not be shared with students who are not taking the class. After filling in the password, click the “Accept Button” (if you
don’t it won’t let you into the site). Once on the class reserve site simply click on the folder which represents the date you need
and all of the reading assignments will be located there as PDF’s. If you have any problems navigating the site, if a reading is
illegible, if a reading is missing, or if you cannot open one of the PDF’s, please contact the McDermott Library Staff, they
are always available to help.
See above.
Suggested Materials
See above.
The Background
January 15, 2009: Film: The Final Solution: 1918-1939 (in class).
Discussion
Yehuda Bauer, A History of the Holocaust, pp. 15- 35; and *David Crowe, A History of the Holocaust
(To be provided in class).
January 20, 2009 *Leon Poliakov, The History of the Jews, pp. 41-72 and 99-122.
January 22, 2009 *Joel Carmichael. The Satanizing of the Jews, pp. 94-123 and *D. Crowe, The Holocaust, pp. 42-52.
January 27, 2009 *D. Crowe, The Holocaust pp. 52- 64 and 68-75; and Y. Bauer, pp. 36- 43 and 48- 56.
(Group Presentation 1: George Mosse, “From Romanticism to the Volk,” pp. 13 -51 and 88-107 in
Crisis of German Ideology to be provided in class.)
January 29, 2009 *D. Crowe, “French Anti-Semitism and the Dreyfus Affair,” pp 64- 68 in The Holocaust.
January 29, 2009 *N. Kleeblatt, “The French Jewish Community from Emancipation to the Dreyfus Affair,” by Paula
(contd.) Hyman pp. 25-35 and “Popular Anti-Semitism,” by Michael R. Marrus,” pp. 50- 61 in The Dreyfus
Affair.
*Marrus & Paxton, “The Roots of Vichy Antisemitism,” pp. 25-34 in Vichy France and the Jews.
February 3, 2009 Y. Bauer, A History of the Holocaust, pp 61-78 and 81- 97 (top).
*D. Crowe, The Holocaust, pp. 87-103.
(Group Presentation 2: Eberhard Jäckel, “Hitler Comes to Power,” pp 1-22 and “Hitler Wages War,”
pp. 23-43, and “Hitler and the Germans,” pp. 88-106 in Hitler in History to be provided in class)
(Group Presentation 3: Jeffrey Herf, “The Jews, the War, and the Holocaust,” pp. 1-16 and “Building
the Anti-Semitic Consensus,” pp. 17-49 in The Jewish Enemy to be provided in class)
February 12, 2009 *Wendy Lower, Nazi Empire-Build and the Holocaust in Ukraine, pp. 1-17 and 69-97.
Y. Bauer, A History of the Holocaust, pp. 121-146.
February 15, 2009 The Burton C. Einspruch Holocaust Lecture Series featuring Professor Wendy Lower
(4:00 p.m. UT Dallas Conference Center to be preceded by a study session with Professor Lower from
2:45-3:45 in the Conference Center auditorium).
Attendance at one of the lectures in the Series (either Sunday or Monday) is considered a class
attendance grade.
February 16, 2009 Day two of the Burton C. Einspruch Holocaust Lecture Series (9:00 a.m. UT Dallas Conference
Center)
February 17, 2009 No class in lieu of attendance at one of lectures from the Burton C. Einspruch Holocaust Lecture
Series
February 19, 2009 Film: Imaginary Witness (Part I) (we will watch in class)
Paragraph Due
February 24, 2009 Film: Imaginary Witness (Part II) (we will watch in class)
Y. Bauer, A History of the Holocaust, pp. 147-182 and 209-227 (bottom of page).
(Group Presentation 4: Leni Yahil, The Fate of European Jewry, pp. 15-87 to be provided in class.)
February 26, 2009 (Group Presentation 5: Leni Yahil, The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945,
pp 88-145 to be provided in class)
March 10, 2009 Watch The Pianist on your own prior to class (this movie is on reserve in the library)
Discuss The Pianist in class
Y. Bauer, A History of the Holocaust, pp. 183-208 and 227-247
March 24, 2009 Watch Schindler’s List on your own prior to class (this movie is on reserve in the library)
Discuss Schindler’s List in class
* Lucy Dawidowicz, in A Holocaust Reade,r pp. 4-7.
*Chaim Kaplan, Scroll of Agony, pp. 19-49, 129 -133, and 362- 400
*Emmanuel Ringelblum, Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, pp. 9-27, 82-93, and 345-347.
(Group Presentation 6: Emmanuel Ringelblum, Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, pg. ix-xviii and
“Introduction,” pp 1-16 and Samuel Kassow, “A Historian’s Final Mission,” pp. 333-388 in Who Will
Write our History? to be provided in class)
Collaboration
March 26, 2009 *Robert Wistrich, “Collaboration Across Europe,” pp.151-183 in Hitler and the Holocaust.
Y. Bauer, A History of the Holocaust, pp. 248-265.
(Group Presentation 7: Marrus & Paxton, “First Steps,” pp. 3-21 and “The Roots of Vichy
Antisemitism,” pp. 34-71 in Vichy France and the Jews to be provided in class)
Resistance
April 14, 2009 *Ilan Avisar, “Holocaust Movies and Politics of Collective Memory,” pp. 38-58 in Thinking about the
Holocaust.
(Group Presentation 9: Illan Avisar, “The Hollywood Film and the Presentation of the Jewish
Catastrophe,” pp. 90-133 in Screening the Holocaust and André Pierre Colombat, “Introduction,”
pp. ix-xx to be provided in class)
April. 23, 2009 *Ida Fink, “The Key Game,” pp.242-243 and “A Spring Morning,” pp. 244-248 in Art from the Ashes.
(Group Presentation 10: Choose a Holocaust movie that is not listed on the syllabus and give your
presentation using the criteria we have been studying in class during the semester.)
April 28, 2009 Art: Imre Amos, Felix Nussbaum, and Samuel Bak.
Paper Due (this grade will be considered incomplete until your paper has been submitted to
turnitin.com)
Grading Policy
Grades will be based on class attendance (15%); participation in class discussions (10%); participation in a group presentation
covering an article provided in class by the instructor (5%); one paragraph summarizing one lecture from the Einspruch Holocaust
Lecture Series (10%); one test (20%); one 5-8 page paper (20%); and one final (20%).
Web sites in general and Wikipedia in particular are not accepted as sources for your papers in this class.
All papers must be submitted to turnitin.com. Instructions for the use of tunritin.com will be provided in class.
Course Policies
Make-up exams
N/A
Extra Credit
N/A
Late Work
If you cannot turn in your paper by April 29, 2009, please notify the instructor at least 48 hours prior to this due date to make other
arrangements. If an incomplete is approved, an “X” will appear on your spring grade report, and your paper will be due at the
beginning of the fall, 2009 semester. All papers turned in as a result of an incomplete must be turned in two weeks prior to the due
date of final grades. Please check the UTDallas Catalog and Academic Calendar regarding rules and dates for incomplete
work.
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Special Assignments
N/A
Class Attendance
Classroom Citizenship
See above.
If you require media equipment for a class presentation, please notify Debbie Pfister at 972-883-2100 or dhpf@utdallas.edu with
your requests two weeks prior to the date you will require the equipment.
NOTE: All cell phones and computers must be turned off upon entering the classroom. Students with special needs which require
use of computers during class must submit a written request to the instructor signed by representatives of Student Services
explaining these needs.
Technical Support
If you experience any problems with your UTD account you may send an email to: assist@utdallas.edu or call the UTD
Computer Helpdesk at 972-883-2911.
N/A
The University of Texas at Dallas administers student discipline within the procedures of recognized and established due
process. Procedures are defined and described in the Rules and Regulations, Series 50000, Board of Regents, The
University of Texas System, and in Title V, Rules on Student Services and Activities of the university’s Handbook of
Operating Procedures. Copies of these rules and regulations are available to students in the Office of the Dean of
Students, where staff members are available to assist students in interpreting the rules and regulations (SU 1.602,
972/883-6391) and online at http://www.utdallas.edu/judicialaffairs/UTDJudicialAffairs-HOPV.html
A student at the university neither loses the rights nor escapes the responsibilities of citizenship. He or she is expected to
obey federal, state, and local laws as well as the Regents’ Rules, university regulations, and administrative rules. Students
are subject to discipline for violating the standards of conduct whether such conduct takes place on or off campus, or
whether civil or criminal penalties are also imposed for such conduct.
Academic Integrity
The faculty expects from its students a high level of responsibility and academic honesty. Because the value of an
academic degree depends upon the absolute integrity of the work done by the student for that degree, it is imperative that
a student demonstrate a high standard of individual honor in his or her scholastic work.
Scholastic Dishonesty, any student who commits an act of scholastic dishonesty is subject to discipline. Scholastic
dishonesty includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, the submission for credit of any work or
materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an examination for another person, any act
designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts.
Plagiarism, especially from the web, from portions of papers for other classes, and from any other source is unacceptable
and will be dealt with under the university’s policy on plagiarism (see general catalog for details). This course will use
the resources of turnitin.com, which searches the web for possible plagiarism and is over 90% effective.
Copyright Notice
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other
reproductions of copyrighted materials, including music and software. Copying, displaying, reproducing, or distributing
copyrighted works may infringe the copyright owner’s rights and such infringement is subject to appropriate disciplinary
action as well as criminal penalties provided by federal law. Usage of such material is only appropriate when that usage
constitutes “fair use” under the Copyright Act. As a UT Dallas student, you are required to follow the institution’s
copyright policy (Policy Memorandum 84-I.3-46). For more information about the fair use exemption, see
http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/copypol2.htm
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students through electronic mail. At the same time, email raises some issues concerning security and the identity of each
individual in an email exchange. The university encourages all official student email correspondence be sent only to a
student’s U.T. Dallas email address and that faculty and staff consider email from students official only if it originates
from a UTD student account. This allows the university to maintain a high degree of confidence in the identity of all
individual corresponding and the security of the transmitted information. UTD furnishes each student with a free email
account that is to be used in all communication with university personnel. The Department of Information Resources at
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responsibility, it is the obligation of the student first to make a serious effort to resolve the matter with the instructor,
supervisor, administrator, or committee with whom the grievance originates (hereafter called “the respondent”).
Individual faculty members retain primary responsibility for assigning grades and evaluations. If the matter cannot be
resolved at that level, the grievance must be submitted in writing to the respondent with a copy of the respondent’s School
Dean. If the matter is not resolved by the written response provided by the respondent, the student may submit a written
appeal to the School Dean. If the grievance is not resolved by the School Dean’s decision, the student may make a
written appeal to the Dean of Graduate or Undergraduate Education, and the deal will appoint and convene an Academic
Appeals Panel. The decision of the Academic Appeals Panel is final. The results of the academic appeals process will be
distributed to all involved parties.
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Copies of these rules and regulations are available to students in the Office of the Dean of Students, where staff members
are available to assist students in interpreting the rules and regulations.
As per university policy, incomplete grades will be granted only for work unavoidably missed at the semester’s end and
only if 70% of the course work has been completed. An incomplete grade must be resolved within eight (8) weeks from
the first day of the subsequent long semester. If the required work to complete the course and to remove the incomplete
grade is not submitted by the specified deadline, the incomplete grade is changed automatically to a grade of F.
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If you anticipate issues related to the format or requirements of this course, please meet with the Coordinator of Disability
Services. The Coordinator is available to discuss ways to ensure your full participation in the course. If you determine that
formal, disability-related accommodations are necessary, it is very important that you be registered with Disability
Services to notify them of your eligibility for reasonable accommodations. Disability Services can then plan how best to
coordinate your accommodations.
It is the student’s responsibility to notify his or her professors of the need for such an accommodation. Disability
Services provides students with letters to present to faculty members to verify that the student has a disability and needs
accommodations. Individuals requiring special accommodation should contact the professor after class or during office
hours.
The University of Texas at Dallas will excuse a student from class or other required activities for the travel to and
observance of a religious holy day for a religion whose places of worship are exempt from property tax under Section
11.20, Tax Code, Texas Code Annotated.
The student is encouraged to notify the instructor or activity sponsor as soon as possible regarding the absence, preferably
in advance of the assignment. The student, so excused, will be allowed to take the exam or complete the assignment
within a reasonable time after the absence: a period equal to the length of the absence, up to a maximum of one week. A
student who notifies the instructor and completes any missed exam or assignment may not be penalized for the absence. A
student who fails to complete the exam or assignment within the prescribed period may receive a failing grade for that
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These descriptions and timelines are subject to change at the discretion of the Professor.